[Nerull]

I started a warlock, and have him up to level 23. I like the character (much higher solo survivability than the mage I started), but I am having an issue with my professions. I am a tailor and enchanter. I like both professions, but neither of them have been terribly profitable up to this point. Enchanting is a money sink up to this point, but everyone knows that about enchanting and I expected as much. It has been hard to find people to enchant stuff for, because there are constantly people yelling on the general channel that they are doing free enchants (thus it has been difficult to raise the skill; I mostly spam my own equipment to raise ranks). Since people are giving away lower level enchants, I also cannot charge for my services, since I end up with no customers.

However, what has really hurt me has been adding tailoring to this. The big "hook" for tailoring is making bags for profit. However, what they do not tell you is that anything below 10 slot bags sell for almost nothing (i.e. not really worth making). I haven't gotten that far (8 slot only), so can't really sell bags that well. So far tailoring has done a great job feeding my enchanting, but since I am not profitable with enchanting, that means zero profit. I have a whopping 2g at level 23; I may not have to buy a mount (warlocks summon one instead of buying one), but still I do have to spend to increase abilities. It's worse that I also have to buy pet upgrades as well.

Does anyone have any suggestions in the short term to make this combo profitable in the short term? I know in the long term I will make cash with this combo (both with selling larger capacity bags and with higher level enchants), but having to grind like crazy just to make enough cash to get my class abilities is really killing me. Also, I've thought of dropping the tailoring for a gathering skill to supplement income. Should I go this route?

Oh, I do belong to a guild, but it is a small guild with a good number of low level characters. I am the only enchanter in the guild at this point, so I do have an incentive to keep up with the enchanting. However, up to this point, everyone knows other enchanters that have given them enchantments on their gear equal or greater to what I can do. Thus, I haven't had too much support within the guild (they do give me wool and stuff on occassion to help with the tailoring side, but it's not like they are going to dump a bunch of green stuff for me to disenchant).